Lawrence: We’ve taken Aqaba.
Brighton: Taken Aqaba? Who has?
Lawrence: We have. Our side in this war has. The wogs have. We have…
Brighton: You mean the Turks have gone?
Lawrence: No, they’re still there but they’ve no boots. Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners, the entire garrison. No that’s not true. We killed some, too many really. I’ll manage it better next time. There’s been a lot of killing, one way or another. Cross my heart and hope to die, it’s all perfectly true.
Brighton: It isn’t possible.
Lawrence: Yes it is. I did it.

This is the basic pattern: extremely serious and prolonged tactical successes turning into straegic successes
posing the next question… now what?

If you get the small stuff right often enough and long enough, and you’re working on serious problems, you can begin to win in ways which the current contexts think of as impossible, creating strategic problems that appear to originate with persistent tactical success. Growth, too many new options, risks of strategic leadership failing to adapt to what has become possible…

I think I know maybe four people who are encountering this problem. I count myself privileged to be around that much talent.